Women’s Farm Bureau Committee

What an EGG-citing project this was for our Hempstead County Women’s Farm Bureau Committee. How blessed we are to be apart of such a wonderful organization and community that allows us to speak and educate on our passions in agriculture. We once again must thank the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation for helping us with this project financially. Without support from them we wouldn’t be able to complete such big projects. We also wanna thank all our women committee members for all their time and energy put in. And a huge thank you to Mrs. Doreen Antley for heading this project up. The egg hatching project went into Garrett Memorial, Blevins, Springhill, & Clinton primary. Each 3rd grade class had a unit with 6 eggs, work sheets related to the egg hatching process, a story book about feelings, egg math sheets, and AG-facts sheets on chicks. The teachers were very excited to work with us as we were with them. This was our first time with this project and we only see it growing from here. The eggs were in the students classrooms for 26 days with the earliest chick hatching at 18 days & the latest at 25 days. The kids enjoyed checking them, and oh when they started to hatch the classrooms were a buzz the teachers said. Each chick that hatched left the classroom with a name and may we say they came up with some pretty unique ones. Lol. Out of all the classrooms 60% of eggs hatched making that a 2-5 ratio in each classroom. So in total we placed 7 units and reached 260 children in the 3rd grade plus the 4th graders at Clinton because the same teacher taught Science for both classes. Making it 12 class in total! 7 at Clinton, 2 at Springhill, 2 at Garrett, & 1 at Blevins. We are beyond blessed to be able to do what we do and even more thankful for all those that helped along the way with this project. The kids learned so much and even went home telling their parents all about it daily.